Am I challenging myself too much?

mckyle9423
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:01:57 +0000

This was my first semester in college (I graduated high school a semester early), and I took 12 hours (FREN 101, BIO 204/203(lab), WRIT 101, and a one hour Intro to University course) because I was warned to take the minimum number of hours as a first-semester freshman. Now, despite having a healthy social life (good group of friends, go out a few times a week) and being the secretary of a club on campus, I am bored because of how little I have to do in terms of actually being productive. It feels like when all of my friends are studying or working on assignments, I have nothing to do except twiddle my thumbs. Despite this, I have an A (or, in the case of BIO 204, an A-) in all of these courses.

Therefore, next semester my schedule looks like this:
ENGL 321 (Holocaust Lit) 3.0 hours
BIOL 206H (Honors Zoology) 4.0 hours
CHEM 104 (Intro to Chem) 3.0 hours
HMXP 102H (Honors Human Experience… it’s a University “Touchstone” requirement, not really sure how to describe this course.) 3.0 hours
EDUC 101 (Self-explanatory) 1.0 hours
FREN 102 (Self-explanatory) 4.0 hours
BIOL 200 (Freshman symposium in Biology) 0.0 hours (required)

I have been told by some people that this schedule is too ambitious. Could I get some opinions from you kind folks? I will still be SEAC secretary, and may be tutoring on campus next year as well (although that is still up in the air).

I am also considering adding a French major and becoming a Biology/French double major. My future plans are to enter into secondary education (I am pursuing my Master’s in Teaching in my fifth year as a part of a program my university sponsors). Any thoughts on this?